Brazil

News Hour: The son of football legend Pele turned himself in late Friday after being ordered by a Brazilian court to begin serving a nearly 13-year prison sentence for money laundering and drug trafficking. Edson “Edinho”...

News Hour: Australia will play Brazil in Melbourne in June as a warm-up for the Confederations Cup, organisers said Thursday, reports BSS. The match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on June 13 will be Brazil’s first...

News Hour: Brazil’s Senate on Wednesday approved President Michel Temer’s justice minister to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court, a controversial appointment due to the number of cabinet ministers and ruling party leaders facing corruption...

News Hour: Brazil will play Argentina in an international friendly on June 9 in Australia, the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) said on Thursday. “The stage for the game will be the Melbourne Cricket Ground, an arena...

News Hour: At last 33 inmates have been killed in a new prison riot in the Amazon region of Brazil, officials said on Friday, just five days after 56 inmates were slaughtered in the country’s worst...

News Hour: A gunman stormed a house party and killed at least 11 people and himself during New Year celebrations in the southeastern Brazilian city of Campinas late on Saturday. Police in the state of São...

News Hour: It was a surprisingly great year for investors brave enough to put money in Brazilian stocks, even though the country spent 2016 floundering through its worst recession in a century and rocked by political...

News Hour: The Brazilian federal government has limited options to help states mired in a debt crisis and will focus first on rebalancing its own troubled accounts, Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles said on Friday. President Michel...

News Hour: Monday nights feel like Saturdays in Rio’s Little Africa neighborhood when the sun sets and the samba starts to play. Surrounded by a mostly young crowd, seven musicians sit around a table with the...

News Hour: The Rio de Janeiro Olympics may not have been perfect but organizers exceeded expectations given the political and economic situation in the South American country, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Tuesday. Rio,...